Definition:
“Imagery is a language used by poets, novelists, and other writers to create images in the mind of the reader. Imagery includes figurative and metaphorical language to improve the reader’s experience through their senses. Visual Imagery in particular describes what we see: colors, shapes, patterns, and size.”
"Imagery." Literary Terms, literaryterms.net/imagery/. Accessed 7 Sept. 2022.
Informal Definition:
Visual Imagery describes what the reader sees or images directly experienced through the author’s or narrator’s eyes. Some examples of Visual Imagery include colors such as candy apple red, a circular shape of gigantic size, or a jagged pattern.
Etymology:
imagery (n.) mid-14c., "piece of sculpture, carved figures," from O.Fr. imagerie (13c.), from imagier "painter," from image (see IMAGE (Cf. image) (n.)). Meaning "ornate description" (in poetry, etc.) is from the 1580s
"Imagery." Etymology Dictionary, etymology.en-academic.com/19273/imagery. Accessed 7 Sept. 2022.
Evelyn H.